Evil Reciprocal Links!

Ok if reciprocal links are bad and we should be trying to only get links to us how do we do that without buying them. Unless we create the most relevant site with the most bounty of beautiful content it aint going to happen. So do we all buy? Or do we develop the trading "one way" links network? Still sounds evil. We will never win when everyone buys links on these expensive networks. Once again the little guy can't win.

Any Ideas?

Ok I know there is ways to build natural links and I think we should all do that, but what about the major companies who buy massive amounts of links when the small guy cant? I know the juniper commerce section cost $6000 a month! Only major players can afford that. So the little guy is at a disadvantage. I personally wouldn’t want to buy any links even if I had the money to do so. It is just wrong. It is wrong because those links serve no purpose other then link popularity. No one clicks on a random link on the side of a nav that has nothing to do with the site they are on.

I have built high PR sites with tons of relevant content and always find myself losing to someone with 3000 links. When I research the links they are crap bought links. So getting as many natural links as you can, will help but you will still lose.

And tell me again why reciprocating links are bad?

Remember the Florida Update Massacre? Overnight Google wiped out the link popularity of particular sites. Google had had enough of the 'gaming' of link poularity.

Excessive reciprocal links stand the chance of the same fate if Google decides they are manipulative.

Natural links and directory listings are consistant and have always been Google proof.

"Natural links and directory listings are consistant and have always been Google proof."

And so far, so have related reciprocating links.

I have never had a site have any type of issues with reciprocated links. But I only exchange links with relavant sites. You cannot say reciprocating links are bad based on "if Google decides they are manipulative". If Google thought anything was manipulative, it would stand the same fate (yes, even none reciprocated links.)

Well.. i know in my indutsry 5 of the top 10 have been steadily ranked in a very VERY competitive industry for close to 8 months now... due to reciprocal links with keyword anchor text..... the other few have bought links on industry related portals.

Recip. links are definately not bad, nor are they valuless. Its the quality of the link that matters... from quality sites and on quality pages.

Quality and relavancey.

Our measure gpt quality includes relevancy, but yes, both are important.

Does anyone know if you use a robots.txt file to stop the Google bot from accessing that page will it give it a PR or will it be greyed over?

do u have MSn or yahoo ID to chat?? so we can discuss further in detail

My MSN : - praf22@hotmail.com
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Regards!
Praf

If Google can't index it, it should be grayed out. But if a page that you want Google to stay away from, has an off site link to it, I think Google will index it and give it PR.